[Janes] For the first time since its establishment in 1987, the Palestinian militant group Hamas is using a firearms simulator rather than live ammunition to train its personnel in marksmanship.
Our simulators free the users from... 'ammo and range lock' which empowers them. It frees up time to write poetry, start their own smuggling business, or care for infant jihadi's ....which is an Mooslim family value.
Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on 16 February that Hamas had made this shift because the group is suffering growing financial pressures due to the Egyptian crackdown on the smuggling tunnels running under the border between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
Ammo arriving via Egyptian tunnel system was it ?
Mohammed Khalaf, a senior Hamas commander, confirmed to IHS Jane's that the simulator was "a creative innovation"
| Fancy language, that. Somebody taking a business management correspondence course? |
developed in response to an ammunition shortage. "It's an advanced laser shooting system that simulates real weapons and we have integrated it for the AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle, M16 and pistols," he said.
"Advanced laser systems" require Chinese air compressors? Could be pneumatic simulated recoil, or a air-soft, paint ball type set up. |